Re: [Tools-discuss] de-authenticate?

[Tony Hansen <tony at att.com>]

Henrik, given that there are issues with the various Logout mechanisms, 
could there be a Logout link that goes to a page explaining the various 
techniques and their issues/shortcomings? For example, the page could 
include a link to 
https://logout at wiki.tools.ietf.org/group/nomcom/09/input ** with an 
explanation of the consequences of using it.

	Tony Hansen
	tony at att.com

** yes, I intentionally changed "dummy" to "logout".

Elwyn Davies wrote:
> Samuel Weiler wrote:
> > Aside from messing with cookies on my end, is there a trivial way to 
> > deauthenticate from the tools site(s)?  I suggest adding such a link 
> > to most pages, PARTICULARLY the NomCom pages.  (I was asked for NomCom 
> > feedback at one address, but I'm typically authenticated to the tools 
> > site from a different address, and I'm having challenges swithcing 
> > between my identities.
> > -- Sam
> I had more or less the same problem... Henrik sent me this 'hack' as a 
> workaround.
> > BTW it would also be useful to have a means to logout from a session - 
> > > once logged in with the 'wrong' email address, there is no way to > 
> > relogin with the 'right' email address apart from clearing the session 
> > > with browser capabilities.
> >  
> > Yes.  One of the woes of using http auth.  Why couldn't whoever specified
> > that have provided a logout mechanism?  (Oh, wait, that was maybe us...)
> > And why haven't the browser manufacturers provide the ability to drop an
> > ID?
> >
> > You can always achieve the effect of logging out by appending a dummy
> > user ID to the URL, to make the browser drop the current ID:
> >
> >   https://dummy at wiki.tools.ietf.org/group/nomcom/09/input
> >
> > but that's a hack.
> On Mozilla Firefox you can also de-authenticate by using the 'clear 
> recent history'/details/active logins option from tools menu (in the 
> recent 3.5.3 release .. the menu option is different for older versions 
> - it is buried in the 'options' tabs).
>
> Regards,
> Elwyn
>
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